DIMITRIOS TSAKMAKISBooks for the next generation

What do you want your children to know
when you are no longer there to tell them?


A father's letter, written down so it survives him — the Three Laws, the Four Virtues, and the stories that shape a life.

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Volume I: The Foundation

Character through the Three Laws and the Four Virtues — a carpenter's son, a paratrooper, and a tactical instructor on what actually builds a man.

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Volume II: The Mind

Logic, focus, and the examined life — teach them to think before the world teaches them what to think. Socrates meets the modern schoolyard.

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Ένα Παιδί, ένας Κόσμος, ένα Μέλλον

Η ελληνική έκδοση — ελπίδες και όνειρα στο σκοτάδι. For the Greek readers: the original story of hope, in the language it was lived in.

Paperback 59pp · Greek
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Written by a father who learned the hard way

Dimitrios Tsakmakis is a carpenter's son from a family that built factories with its hands and lost everything through the mistakes of others. A special forces paratrooper. A police tactical instructor. A man who has rushed into burning buildings, lost everything once, and rebuilt.

He wrote these books because his father's dementia taught him that everything a person knows can disappear while their body remains. These are the lessons he refuses to let vanish.

— Dimitrios Tsakmakis, Athens

For young readers too

The books are written to be read by the children themselves — readers 12 and up — and by the parents who want to hand them something real. No lectures. Short, direct chapters with true stories.

Published in Greece · ISBN-registered with the National Library of Greece · Sold worldwide via Lulu

The Three Laws

I

Build Real Things

Skills over shortcuts. What you make with your hands and mind, no one can take from you.

II

Tell the Truth — Especially to Yourself

Self-deception is the slowest way to lose everything you built.

III

Protect the People Who Depend on You

Strength is not for showing off. It exists so others can sleep at night.

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